Author Ann DAngelo will be at the Southwest Regional Library to talk about her book "Dark Highway: Love, Murder, and Revenge in 1930s' Kentucky."

On a cold November night in 1936, the body of beautiful LaGrange businesswoman Verna Garr Taylor is found in a ditch along a lonely highway in rural Kentucky. Verna has been shot through the heart, and her fiancé, former state lieutenant governor and brigadier general Henry Denhardt insists she committed suicide. But the evidence points to murder, and General Denhardt quickly becomes the target of investigators. The general’s sensational murder trial draws reporters from all over the country to the Henry County Courthouse in New Castle, Kentucky.

“With spellbinding storytelling, Ann DAngelo has recovered from the dust bin of Kentucky history one of the most fascinating — but forgotten — episodes of romance, murder, and revenge in a state known for all three.” — Bill Cunningham, Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court